Friday, March 16, 2007

article alert & updates

- article alert: melbourne readers, or readers of melbourne news - i have a piece coming out in the saturday age A2 section tomorrow. if it is also published in the age online, i will post a link to it.**
- updates: writing is progressing slowly but surely. can't say much apart from the fact that what i'm working on is very different to the first novel, and as such it is presenting its own unique set of challenges. but it's all good, and we'll see what happens.


**update again: the article is online and can be accessed by clicking here.
post-script - actually the link wasn't working for a while, so after this morning's activities, the tag line should actually read something like this - 'Shalini Akhil's first novel, The Bollywood Beauty, was published by Penguin. She is currently sitting in front of her computer and clicking 'refresh' repeatedly.'

- confession: i bought three copies of the age at at the servo very early this morning, and the indian behind the counter stared at me quizzically and demanded, 'where you taking?'. i told him i had an article in it and he softened and said 'ah, you buy for your family?'. i said 'yes, one for mum and dad, two for me...'

4 comments:

Peceli and Wendy's Blog said...

Good on you Shalini. Very impressive to have an article in the Age today. Keep up the good work. I was thinking about going to see the Bollywood exhibition then I saw your article.
Wendy

shalini akhil said...

hi wendy,
thanks for the comment - writing the article was fun, and it's great to see it in print in the age. the exhibition, by the way, is great! if you do go see it, you'll probably find that it brings back lots of memories, as it did for me.

Anonymous said...

Very well summed up. Well Done! Eva

shalini akhil said...

thanks eva, glad you liked it! have fun on your break, looking forward to hangin' out with you in july :o)